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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
BTVI instructor Graham Thornley teaches students during the theory segment of carpentry training. This was one of four courses taught. Other courses included Plumbing, Tiling and Electrical Installation. (Photo/Courtesy, One Eleuthera Foundation)
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ELEUTHERA, The Bahamas – One Eleuthera Foundation (OEF) and South Eleuthera Mission (SEM) under the umbrella of Center for Training & Innovation partnered with the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) to provide skills training free-of-charge to nearly 100 Eleutherans, August 17 to 22, at the Central Eleuthera High School in Palmetto Point.
Training free-of-charge was facilitated by the One Eleuthera Foundation.
BTVI instructed school-leavers and others in General Maintenance such as Tiling, Carpentry, Plumbing and Electrical Installation. Taking advantage of the opportunity were persons from as far as Current Island in the North, and Bannerman Town in the South, including 12 women and 78 men ranging in age from 16 to 66.
Alexander Darville, Dean of Construction Workforce at BTVI, during the practical part of training showing a student how to test the voltage coming on each phase of a meter. (Photo/Courtesy, One Eleuthera Foundation)
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Benefits of the initiative included giving school leavers who are not academically inclined the chance to participate in the working world; and, as Alexander Darville, Dean of Construction Workforce at BTVI, said – it opens the way for persons on the island to assist skilled construction workers who are brought in on investment projects.
Errol McPhee, managing director of the South Eleuthera Mission, noted “we have recognized that there are no post-high school academic or vocational/technical institutions on Eleuthera to prepare school-leavers and others for the world of work; as a result, we have partnered with BTVI to assist with basic training in areas that are beneficial.”
Shaun Ingraham, CEO of One Eleuthera Foundation, said OEF through the Center for Training & Innovation plans to continue developing partnerships with national and international institutions to facilitate training in the future in areas such a construction, hospitality, management, health care, business and computer technology. (Photos/Courtesy, One Eleuthera Foundation)
62 year old Emily Munnings of Savannah Sound assisting with the leak her plumbing class was tasked with fixing. (Photo/Courtesy, One Eleuthera Foundation)
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Many people thought courses being offered were for men, but that didn’t stop some women from getting their hands dirty. A total of 12 women participated in training. (Photo/Courtesy, One Eleuthera Foundation)
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Student sawing during the practical portion of carpentry class. (Photo/Courtesy, One Eleuthera Foundation)
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Morris Cash, BTVI plumbing instructor, working with students during a practical session of the plumbing course to fix a busted pipe. (Photo/Courtesy, One Eleuthera Foundation)
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Students putting their newly-acquired tiling skills to use. (Photo/Courtesy, One Eleuthera Foundation)
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